My dissertation project, working title Antikythera, is set in the early 4th century BCE. I’m well aware that my main characters’ contemporaries are long dead. Their ancestors are long dead, or at least so well-scattered it’s hard to trace the family tree. I’m well aware that none of their friends are going to come up and tell me I’m doing it wrong. I know, logically, I have a little wiggle room.

It’s just so… awkward.

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